Published : 2021-12-08

The Experience of Learning a Foreign Language in Late Adulthood

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The biographical research presented in this paper can be located at the intersection of the scientific disciplines of andragogy, foreign language teaching and developmental psychology, and its cognitive objective is to look at how foreign language learning shapes late adulthood and what its consequences and values for a senior’s life are. A biographical interview was used as the method of data collection. The resulting narration was analysed and interpreted using a categorial analysis technique developed by Anna Walulik and Zbigniew Marek, according to which the material is considered from the following, a priori defined, categories: actors, place, time, values and expectations. The results obtained in the study and its pedagogical and teaching implications may serve as a basis for reflection, inspiration in designing educational activities and as an incentive for further studies aimed at exploring the above mentioned research problems.

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late adulthood, learning, development, foreign languages, experience



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Przybylska, I. (2021). The Experience of Learning a Foreign Language in Late Adulthood. Biografistyka Pedagogiczna, 6(1), 529–554. https://doi.org/10.36578/BP.2021.06.31

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"Biografistyka Pedagogiczna" received funding for the years 2022-2024 from the funds of the Minister of Education and Science under the programme „Rozwój Czasopism Naukowych”.

Project duration: 2023-2024.

The amount of co-financing is 65 992,00 PLN

Contract number: RCN/SP/0434/2021/1